In this thrilling new mystery paperback, by International Mystery Crime Author, Oliver Dean Spencer — a collection of 5 hard-boiled, short, mystery fictions appear in print for the first time.Whether Cartwright is trying to stop an innocent man from execution in Tell Me That You Love Me. Or keeping his wits about him as he interviews a stripper in The Polka Dot Affair. Or searches for a missing girl that's stolen a cursed artifact in The Spanish Curse.

Series: James Cartwright PI Mysteries (Book 2 of 3)Best Mystery & Crime Fiction / 2023 MAXY International Book AwardsJames Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, is cynical, resourceful, and tough. He lives by a moral code, one which he believes helps him distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and truth from lies.But as Cartwright discovers during each of his cases, it's one thing to believe in the code, and quite anoth...

Series: James Cartwright PI Mysteries (Book 3)Cartwright’s latest case starts off simple enough. Miss Stonewall, from the Mutual Trust Insurance Agency, wants him to track down a missing orangutan. The thing is, as Cartwright explains, he doesn’t do orangutans. But when Stonewall offers him a large wad of cash for the job, Cartwright’s suspicions are piqued.Cartwright stumbles across a rare green diamond, setting off a chain of events that lands him in a tangled we...

Journey inside the numbers for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesnÆt diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when theyÆre winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the j...

A pioneer in the field of basketball analytics, Dean Oliver introduced a framework to understand basketball through the use of statistics in his book Basketball on Paper. In his follow-up, Basketball beyond Paper, Oliver lays out both the technical and personal aspects of his twenty-year experience in the NBA as he helped build the analytics that changed the game. He also looks at the people and technology that pushed those analytics forward.Oliver tells stories o...

Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting-edge studies on strategy and player evaluation. Today, he cochairs the sports statistics section of the International Statistics Institute and consults with several professional teams and businesses in sports analytics....

Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn’t diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they’re winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs o...

In this thrilling new series, by International Mystery Crime Author, Oliver Dean Spencer, former Detroit detective turned P.I. James Cartwright is drawn into the world of corporate espionage, misdirection and murder.Albert Martin, a surveillance expert hired by the military contractor Consolidated Enterprises has gone missing. His wife is Cartwright's main suspect until two government spooks show up looking for a missing disc. The disc holds the key to solving a murder and uncoveri...

Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today’s game of football. Now, sports commentator and bestselling author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams—the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons—from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick’s influence on the game. This one-of-a-kind exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with unprecedented insider access to...

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential leadership advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult entrepreneurship is when it comes to running one. ...

The New York Times–bestseller from the Hall of Fame basketball legends. "Finally a book that tells the story of Magic and Larry from their vantage point." —Denzel WashingtonIn Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone and whose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. Magic Johnson was Mr. Showtime, a magnetic p...

In the first edition of this landmark book, business loyalty guru Fred Reichheld revealed the question most critical to your company’s future: Would you recommend us to a friend?” By asking customers this question, you identify detractors, who sully your firm’s reputation and readily switch to competitors, and promoters, who generate good profits and true, sustainable growth.You also generate a vital metric: your Net Promoter Score. Since the book was first publi...